Edmund Stoiber Quotations

The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly, and it has to be accepted . . . that Angela Merkel will be chancellor.

We are at the bottom of European economic growth, ... Schroeder had four years to fight unemployment and did nothing.

The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly and it has to be accepted by the SPD that Angela Merkel will be chancellor.

Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!

The CDU, the great party of the center, is back. It is the biggest party in parliament. We will make what we can of this great result.

she will be a good chancellor and will have me ... by her side all the way.

Should we not be able to construct a government ... the Schroeder government will only be able to govern for a very, very short time,

I have come to the conclusion that as leader I can represent my party's interests better in Munich.

We must do everything, apply everything, apply every diplomatic, every political pressure so that the U.N. is successful that the inspectors are let into the country again and that we know exactly what weapons Saddam Hussein owns,

It is not a question of who is the better actor.

It is horrible that such a tragic accident must be endured at the start of the year.

It is naturally a changed situation for me, for us. I will discuss it tomorrow with my party executive.

We have a flooding catastrophe, but we also have another catastrophe ... our exceptionally high unemployment,

Unfortunately, we don't have such intelligent citizens everywhere as we do in Bavaria.

The political situation has changed. The SPD is no longer so predictable,

We bear the responsibility to form a stable government with a capability to act.

We want the whole list on the table, and completely, before the election, ... Anything else would be enormous election deception.

The crisis in the pensions budget is dramatic, ... There should be no taboos about discussing longer working lives and increasing both actual and legal retirement ages.

This shows that Germany is not fully equipped for international competition.

extreme situation in which Germany finds itself, we have no choice but to vote for the grand coalition.

What is going on in China now smells like technology theft.

We will not be able to go without a tax cut for the middle class.

The signal from Schroeder and Chirac to Turkey, that they can be full members, has contributed to the failure of the constitutional treaty,

Perhaps there is a piece of universal justice there that Mr. Schroeder will be able to live through the results of what he has brought upon us. Just give him a few months to go through that.

Perhaps there is a piece of universal justice here,

so that we are capable of taking over the government, even if it is not possible at the present time.

That the chancellor sets the course in a coalition with equally strong partners is only possible in very small doses. Either we can do it together, or it must be laid to rest.

This is the greatest act of budget consolidation in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany.

This grand coalition was not wanted, but it is a great chance.

the most devastating of the last 50 years.

I want to make clear that the SPD has to begin to understand that they did not win the election, they lost the vote.

That's an absolute cheek. You won't win this elections this way.

The key to integration is a common language and that happens to be German here -- and we can demand that.

In this altered situation, I have reached the decision that as the head of the party, I can better support the interests of the Christian Social Union in Munich.

I propose to the Chancellor that... before this legislature is recessed, we make some necessary changes to the weapons law, such as raising the age of ownership for large-caliber weapons from 18 to 21,

I believe I can draw on my experience in Bavaria to create a dynamic economy for the whole of Germany,

The course and the predictability of the SPD is no longer clear,

The course of the SPD and its reliability is not so clear anymore,

The consolidation of the budget is, of course, the premise for all further political measures. We want to achieve the Maastricht criteria by 2007.